<div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strix_mortar_round">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strix_mortar_round</a><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lethal drone in use since -94</div><div dir="auto">Loiter time is somewhat limited but it is fully autonomous after deployment.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_mine</a></div><div dir="auto">Way too long loiter time. Most of them also quite stupid as drones goes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anyone thinking that drone warfare is avoidable have way too thick roseglasses.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">/Henrik</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den tis 15 juni 2021 16:11ddraig--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> skrev:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 23:33, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We knew this was coming several years ago when the quad rotor drones began to show up <br>
</p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>When I was a kid, there was an article in a local newspaper in Melbourne about a weird death. This guy had heard a noise outside, opened his back door to see what it was, and a remotely-controlled model airplane flew at high speed into his chest as he stood in the doorway, killing him. The police said it was a terrible accident, but I always wondered if it actually was an accident. The plane seemed to be remarkably precise in it's flight path. I was a kid at the time, and I've never forgotten this article. This was 1978? Something like that. So, yeah, drones have made it easier to kill people (look at the footage of the resistance in Iraq dropping explosives onto US tank commanders from a drone) but I've been wondering since the 70s why this has taken so long to come about.<br><br></div><div>Autonomous drones, though - that's very scary. <br><br></div><div>I read a story about the same time - it was in an SF anthology edited by Sam Moskowitz, I think (Futures to Infinity). Looking up the name of the story, I've just discovered it was written by Phillip K Dick, which is pretty cool to now realise, actually.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety</a><br><br></div><div>The newspaper article and the SF story made a powerful impression on me at the time (I was about 10 years old, I think)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, there's a pile of things I've carried around in the back of my head since I was a kid, wondering when they'd manifest into reality. The newspaper article and "Second Variety" are two of them.<br><br></div><div>(I'm still waiting for roads to be dug up for their hydrocarbon content, amongst other things).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dwayne<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"> <a href="mailto:ddraig@pobox.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ddraig@pobox.com</a> ddraigbot / NSO / Connery<br> ...r.e.t.u.r.n....t.o....t.h.e....s.o.u.r.c.e...<br> <a href="http://fav.me/dqkgpd" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://fav.me/dqkgpd</a><a href="http://tinyurl.com/he-is-right-you-know-jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"></a><br>our aim is wakefulness, our enemy is dreamless sleep</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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